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There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times.
Noel Perrin
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Noel Perrin
Born:
September 18, 1927
Died:
November 21, 2004
(aged 77)
Bio:
Noel Perrin was an American essayist and a professor at Dartmouth College.
Known for:
Giving up the gun (1979)
First person rural (1978)
A reader's delight (1988)
Amateur Sugar Maker (1972)
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